Dear All We reached back home on night of 18 May after an another successful visit to Chakrata region. For the information of members I wish to share some important things. Chakrata is situated in Uttarakhand State in Dehradoon District. This region is considered as a paradise of botanists due to many regions. This place is still far away from general tourists and completely out of bound for foreigners. Hotel facilities are still highly underdeveloped in the area as only 3-4 hotels are there. Even forest rest houses are situated in remote area and with lack of basic facilities like electricity, poor toilet and bath facilities, non availability of water etc. So natural vegetation is still intact and very very less plastic pollution. there are no much places to visit for general tourist. Besides all this this is the best place for nature loers. Budher is famous for beautiful butterflies. In this dry season also we could saw 2-3 dozens type of beautiful butterflies. This time we could saw many precious medicinal plants in budher and deovan area naturally like Podophyllum hexandrum (in fruiting stage), Taxus baccata, Polygonatum multiflorum (in flowering), Polygonatum verticillatum (in flowering) etc. More than two dozens of trees were also seen in flowering stage. This time we interacted with many locals there and after many discussions we reached on the conclusion that Chakrata region must be visited in the month of Feb/March (End of Feb to first week of March) then in Mid of July to end of July then in september and also in November.
-- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
